An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
IMMANUEL KANTHeaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
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Since the human race’s natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.
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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
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Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
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Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
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Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
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Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
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If justice perishes, then it is no longer worthwhile for men to live upon the earth.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
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In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.
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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
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Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
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The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.
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By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man.
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